You might recall we put the binaryXML issue to sleep on 12 May 2004:
"W3C has chartered the XML Binary Characterization Working Group to
address this issue. The TAG anticipates reviewing the WG's deliverables
in this area."
http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/issues.html?type=1#binaryXML-30
As your team contact, I suppose it's in order for me to inform
you and the TAG that a 1st draft of those deliverables are available:
Efficient XML Interchange Measurements: Working Draft
http://www.w3.org/News/2007#item161 2007-07-25
Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) Format: Working Draft
http://www.w3.org/News/2007#item153 2007-07-16
The working group timeline has recently been updated:
"We plan to reach the Last Call working draft stage in December 2007. We
will publish here a revised target timeline for Last Call Working Draft,
Candidate, Proposed and final Recommendation before next WD
publication."
-- http://www.w3.org/XML/EXI/#timeline
Reaction in blogs includes...
[[
You can call it anything you want, but that's Binary XML.
Update: Larry O'Brien points out that the situation is even worse than
it appears, as they've designed in Pluggable CODECS.
]]
-- http://bitworking.org/news/219/Binary-XML
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Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/